Try This
By Anonymous Paul on 8 May, 2013
Spherefication is the process of turning liquid into spheres surrounded by a thin, gel-like membrane. Essentially like caviar; bursting in the mouth with liquid with a nudge of your tongue. Filled and flavored with such ingredients as olive oil, fruit juices and vegetable purees; “crafted caviar” was once only accessible to those willing to pay …read »
Photo Essays
By Anonymous Paul on 29 April, 2013
There are quite a few steak houses in Manila but oddly enough, if you ask people where to get a good steak Mamou will definitely come up in that list. Odd because Mamou is not a steak house per se, but an establishment that serves comfort food done the Malou Fores way. Which is basically …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 15 April, 2013
Pansit Batil Patung. Sounds so exotic. To me at least. But it’s a popular dish up in Tuguegarao and I have only recently understood why. It’s primarily made of miki noodles cooked in this richly flavoured brown stock, piled with ground carabeef (carabao meat), chopped liver and crowned with a sunny side up. Here at …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 5 April, 2013
…thus far, was under this tamarind tree …eating this… …and this… …and this… …with sand under my feet and a view like this. All simply prepared food. Where fish is grilled as is, skin and scales on, unseasoned; and it tastes like fish. Where lato (seaweed) is just given a squeeze of calamansi to make …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 12 March, 2013
Go-en may have seemed to have gotten on two bandwagons by merging a couple of current food trends; that being the ramen and the burger to create…the ramen burger. Essentially its a deconstructed and reconstructed shoyu ramen. Inside two pan fried noodle buns are slices of tender pork chasu, scallions and a thickened shoyu broth. …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 26 February, 2013
There was a time when Taiwanese style beef noodles seemed to be the dish du jour. And it was Suzhou’s and Mien San’s versions I liked best, and still do today. Maybe including Khanzu’s in the present list as well. But I haven’t been to Mien San in a while. I really would like to go …read »